incurable
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The team describes the early findings as promising for a cancer that remains incurable, but the results are still preliminary and involve a relatively small group of patients.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
At age 13, after one hour with a psychiatrist, she was told she had bipolar disorder, an incurable brain illness.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
For 20 years, its orange groves have been ravaged by an incurable disease that causes fruit to drop before it is ripe, and leaves it tasting bitter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Patients in England with a specific type of incurable breast cancer can now access a life-extending drug on the NHS.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The story said her name was Helen L., “a young woman in her thirties when she was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with an incurable cancer of the cervix.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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